2:13 AM,
May 3, 2013

A portrait of Nobel Prize-winner Elinor Ostrom is part of the Indiana University collection. Indiana university via AP

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Mike Leonard
| The Herald-Times

Sherry Rouse calls it "the most elevating exhibition of my career," but acknowledges it didn't start out as a grand feminist initiative.

"When we moved all of the portraits of the presidents to the President's Hall in Franklin Hall, a lot of them came out of the Indiana Memorial Union and the area of the East Lounge," Rouse said. That freed up new exhibition space, and the campus has a significant amount of fine art in storage.

"At the same moment in time, Bonnie Sklarski, a retired professor of painting, was working on a portrait of (Nobel Prize-winner) Elinor Ostrom," said Rouse, the curator of ...